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Lee Ann Roripaugh: String of Beads
From: BirdNote
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When writer Lee Ann Roripaugh visited the annual staging grounds of Sandhill Cranes in Nebraska, she was in awe of the birds. During their spring m...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Why a Gorget Glitters
From: BirdNote
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Why a Gorget Glitters A hummingbird's brilliant throat feathers are called a "gorget," a term applied in past centuries to the metallic swatch prot...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
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How Birds Survived the Asteroid
From: BirdNote
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The asteroid that struck the Yucatán 66 million years ago wreaked worldwide ecological damage, spelling the end for most dinosaurs and destroying t...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
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White-tailed Hawks on the Texas Coastal Plain
From: BirdNote
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The White-tailed Hawk thrives in the grassy plains of the Texas Coastal Plain, where many tropical species reach the northern limit of their ranges...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
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Spark Bird: John Kessler and the Music of Birds
From: BirdNote
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John Kessler served as BirdNote’s senior producer for over 18 years. But before BirdNote existed, he was recording the sounds of Seattle for public...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
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Burrowing Belted Kingfisher
From: BirdNote
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The Belted Kingfisher dashes through the air, warning intruders with its rapid-fire, rattling call. In spring, the best places to see Belted Kingfi...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
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Aviary: Bird Echolocation to the Rescue
From: BirdNote
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In this episode featuring Aviary — the shapeshifting bird superhero — the surprising abilities of birds come in handy when a student gets lost expl...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
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Birds Dress for Spring
From: BirdNote
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It's spring! And for many birds, a time to look their best to attract a new mate. This American Goldfinch has recently molted. Its old, worn-down f...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
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Lyrebirds Shift the Earth
From: BirdNote
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Beavers are well known as ecosystem engineers in North America. In Australia, lyrebirds play a big role in shaping their environment when they use ...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
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House Wren - Little Brown Dynamo
From: BirdNote
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House Wrens dart from perch to perch and sing almost nonstop. They’re one of the most thoroughly studied songbird species. House Wrens nest in cavi...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
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Mockingbirds Mimic Frogs
From: BirdNote
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The avian world is full of mimicry artists, but Northern Mockingbirds take it to a new level. Not only can they imitate other birds, they can mimic...

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High Island, Texas
From: BirdNote
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Each spring, millions of songbirds migrate north from the tropics to nest in North America. It takes 15 hours on average to cross the roughly 500 m...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
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Poetry Month: Susan Nguyen
From: BirdNote
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For National Poetry Month, we’re sharing contemporary writers’ work about birds. Poet Susan Nguyen got a hummingbird feeder from her neighbor in 20...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
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A Hawk That Hunts in Packs
From: BirdNote
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Most raptors are solitary birds, but Harris’s Hawks of the southwestern U.S. live and hunt in groups of two to six. After spotting a prey animal, t...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
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Two Wings and a Tail
From: BirdNote
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The Wilson's Snipe lives in marshes and muddy areas, where it probes for worms and other squirmy delights. But when spring comes, it takes to the a...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
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An April Fool’s Birdsong Quiz
From: BirdNote
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In this April Fool’s Day quiz from BirdNote, we play the sounds of three birds — only one of which is real. See if you can tell which one, and let ...

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
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Flying with Birds and Bats
From: BirdNote
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Bats and birds have evolved very different ways of flying. Birds have stiff feathers projecting from lightweight, fused arm and hand bones; bats ha...

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
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Warbler That Loves Pines, The
From: BirdNote
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The Pine Warbler is one of the few warblers that make appearances at bird feeders. They live year round in pine forests of the southeast U.S. and s...

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
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Listen for Tapping
From: BirdNote
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Woodpeckers are our most familiar bird carpenters, but other birds also chip out nests in trees and wood structures. Nuthatches — like this Red-bre...

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
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Using Sound to Bring Rails Back into Wetlands
From: BirdNote
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Rails are secretive marsh birds, and they’re on the decline. But a researcher playing their recorded calls over a loudspeaker could help bring them...

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
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BirdNoir: A Dark and Stormy Night
From: BirdNote
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In this episode of BirdNoir, Private Eye Michael Stein gets a call from his friend Billy, a mail carrier. Billy says he hasn’t seen a single bird o...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
Birds on the March with Army Ants
From: BirdNote
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As thousands of army ants march through a rainforest in Panama looking for food, countless insects try to escape. Antbirds follow the ants, waiting...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45
In the Dark with Boreal Owls
From: BirdNote
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Boreal Owls are highly adapted to hunt in long hours of winter darkness. Uniquely, one ear opening in the skull is set high and the other much lowe...

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
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Do Penguins Blush?
From: BirdNote
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Humboldt Penguins living along the Pacific Coast of Chile and Peru are adapted to cold. But on land, temperatures rise to 100+ degrees, and penguin...

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  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
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Songs and Calls - They're Not the Same
From: BirdNote
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To our ear, the haunting song of this Hermit Thrush is musical, even ethereal. To another Hermit Thrush, the song signals that a male is laying cla...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2024
  • Length: 01:45